When I was growing up, my favorite cookie was two round chocolate wafers with a creamy white filling between them. Yep, that\u2019s right they were Hydrox cookies. I know, you probably thought I was talking about Oreo cookies, but believe it or not, we didn\u2019t have Oreo cookies in Maysville. Hydrox was manufactured by Sunshine Biscuits, a company that made most of the cookies sold in my dad\u2019s and granddad\u2019s stores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hydrox cookies were first sold in 1908 and were the inspiration for the Oreo cookie that was introduced in 1912. The Oreo eventually exceeded Hydrox in popularity, which resulted in Hydrox being perceived as an imitator, although it was the original.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The creators of the Hydrox cookie looked to name it something that conveyed \u201cpurity and goodness.\u201d The name they came up with was derived from the elements that constitute water \u2014 hydrogen and oxygen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The origin of the name Oreo is unknown. Some say it was derived from the French word or<\/em>, meaning gold, others think it\u2019s from a Greek word meaning mountain and some think Oreo was chosen because it is short and easy to pronounce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I personally favor Hydrox over Oreos, but over the years I\u2019ve chosen Beta over VHS, 8-track over cassettes, WordPerfect over Microsoft Word, I had an Apple Newton and liked the New Coke so I may not be the best person to endorse products. We do have Oreos in our house and I\u2019m sure our grandkids would choose them over Hydrox in a taste test.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n But after becoming the king of cookies, not even Oreo can survive being touched by scandal. I realize that the nation is currently faced with many scandals, but the fiasco I\u2019m about to tell you about threatens our very notion of truth and goodness. Double Stuf Oreos do not<\/em> contain twice the stuf that are in normal Oreos!! I know this is true \u2014 it was on the Internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Say what you will about our education system, but a high school math class conducted an experiment and concluded that Double Stuf Oreos contain only 1.86 times more stuf than the original Oreo cookies. As might be expected, Nabisco, the maker of Oreos, said that the cookies do indeed contain twice as much.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The legal community is offering up as a defense, the fact that a Subway footlong sandwich isn\u2019t really exactly 12 inches. Now here\u2019s the problem with that \u2014 the dictionary defines \u201cfootlong\u201d as \u201capproximately one foot in length.\u201d The dictionary definition of “double” indicates it\u2019s a mathematical phrase signifying \u201ctwice as much.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n So the argument comes down to, \u201cis corporate American knowingly cheating our children?\u201d Actually, not just children \u2014 adults like Oreos, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You may notice that I haven\u2019t really taken a stand here \u2014 I\u2019m still trying to figure out what \u201cstuf\u201d is. I thought it was the white filling between the two chocolate cookies, but stuf isn\u2019t listed in the dictionary and the closest word, stuff, doesn\u2019t describe anything like that white filling\u2026. so maybe if things really get ugly and the big Oreo Fraud trial finally overtakes coronavirus and statue toppling in the news, lawyers will reveal what \u201cStuf\u201d is. I guess until this is all sorted out, just follow the old advice of \u201cbuyer beware.\u201d When I was growing up, my favorite cookie was two round chocolate wafers with a creamy white filling between them. Yep, that\u2019s right they were Hydrox cookies. I know, you probably thought I was talking about Oreo cookies, but believe … Continue reading
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